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DCP-LETT-5748

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 30 May 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 73
Summary:

Reversion of tamed animals to wild behaviour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6215

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
30 May [1868]
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection box 1, folder 2)
Summary:

Glad to have JJW’s opinion on nest-building. Wallace’s view [that skill is learned] is opposed to many facts.

Asks JJW about birds and their behaviour.

Wants information on the first plumage of different breeds of canaries.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6216

From:
Hugh Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 329
Summary:

Is reading CD’s instances of inherited peculiarities of eye [Variation 2: 8–10]. Gives cases of colour-blindness of males in his family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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